Immigration: Chief Donnacona

Jacques Cartier Dept: But historians know the next boat people, Jacques Cartier and his Breton mariners, who sailed into Gaspe harbour in 1534, and quickly developed a sour relationship with Iroquois chief Donnacona, ticking him off by their pushy behaviour in claiming the land for the French king and kidnapping his sons, according to Globe And Mail. They can be watched, coming across the blank, huge canvas of the ocean, moment by moment growing larger and more ominous on the horizon, carrying alien stuff . Hence the noisy narrative of the MV Sun Sea's progress over the Pacific into Canadian territory with its Tamil cargo and no one knows how they were received by the local inhabitants, the Beothuks. Probably not well. The Beothuks' response to later European arrivals, before they became extinct, was to hide from them by moving inland. The primal fear of the stranger, the Other, seems edgiest when they arrive by sea. As reported in the news.
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